IT-Code-News: IT News Head Lines (TechSpot) 11/26/2014

Lenovo Y70 Touch Laptop Review: A decent all-rounder with a tragic performance bottleneck

Lenovo's Y70 Touch isn't a wild departure from the laptop designs you're used to seeing. In fact, it mostly looks like an average notebook, only sleeker and slightly more aggressive than most. It boasts a 17.3-inch 1920x1080 multi-touch display, Lenovo's largest touchscreen laptop to date, and it's built for gaming, video editing, and to...

Nexus 6 earns favorable repairability score in teardown analysis

Google and Motorola’s lovechild has inevitably found its way into the hands of teardown specialist iFixit. It’s generally good news for the Nexus 6 as it is reasonably easy to repair so long as you can get inside.

Widespread hack at Sony Pictures Entertainment reportedly brings down entire computer system

Sony appears to have once again been targeted by malicious hackers. On Monday, Sony Pictures Entertainment – the company’s motion picture, television production and distribution arm – was essentially brought to a standstill as a result of a bizarre security breach.

T-Mobile adds 14 additional music streaming services to its Music Freedom plan

Music and video streaming services are more popular now than ever. Unfortunately, they’re also among the top data plan killers each month and no doubt are responsible for the majority of data overage fees.

eBay rethinks same-day delivery program, pulls eBay Now from App Store

eBay is reconsidering its same-day shipping service. eBay Now, the mobile app that facilitated the service, was pulled from the App Store over the weekend according to multiple reports on the matter.

Samsung sold 40 percent fewer Galaxy S5 smartphones than anticipated

Samsung executives had high hopes for the Galaxy S5 in light of the tremendous success of its predecessor. The company produced roughly 20 percent more handsets than it did for the S4 but in the end, Samsung sold about 40 percent fewer S5 smartphones than anticipated.

Apple releases another Yosemite beta as Wi-Fi problems refuse to go away

Just over a couple of weeks after Apple released the first beta of Mac OS X Yosemite for developers since the official release, the company has come out with a second beta. It isn't yet clear whether the 10.10.2 update fixes the Wi-Fi problems that have been plaguing users for some time...

The FAA's upcoming drone rules could all but eliminate commercial use

The Federal Aviation Administration is set to release long-awaited rules for commercial drone use by the end of the year. Those rules, however, may end up being terribly restrictive if a new report from The Wall Street Journal pans out.

Samsung reportedly mulling major management shake-up

A few weeks after Samsung reported disappointing third quarter results, with operating profit falling to its lowest level in more than three years, the company is mulling a major change in leadership. According to a Wall Street Journal report, Samsung's co-chief executive and mobile head J.K. Shin could be removed...

Neowin: Playbulb Color, the Bluetooth enabled multi-color light bulb and speaker

The world is becoming more connected by the day, and nowhere is that more obvious than in the different "smart" devices that are available inside your home. While some devices are obvious candidates for connecting, such as your television with a Chromecast or Amazon Fire stick, it's clear that the...

Microsoft adds Skype-powered chat to Office Online

Office Online users will soon be able to chat in real-time with others while collaborating on documents. Microsoft has announced that it has added a built-in Skype chat feature to the browser-based version of its productivity suite. Dubbed Document chat, the feature will only be available on the Word and PowerPoint web apps, which...

Dell is now shipping its unofficial Steam Machine, the Alienware Alpha PC gaming console

Valve’s Steam Machine concept generated a lot of buzz when it first broke cover well over a year ago but an unavoidable delay that pushed the release date back to 2015 took most of the wind out of its sails.

Judge gives final approval to Apple's $450 million ebook settlement

A few months after giving a preliminary acceptance, a federal judge has finally approved Apple's settlement in a long-running ebook price-fixing lawsuit. During a hearing last week, US District Judge Denise Cote approved what she termed as a "highly unusual" accord, something which would see the Cupertino-based company pay $400 million...

FCC spectrum auction surpasses $34 billion in bids as wireless carriers fight for airwaves

A wireless spectrum auction being hosted by the Federal Communications Commission has garnered bids more than three times higher than the initial reserve price of $10.5 billion. The auction, which is offering up six blocks of airwaves totaling 65MHz of spectrum, has become the largest in the FCC’s history.

Samsung retaliates, petitions ITC to block Nvidia chips from US market

A few weeks after filing a lawsuit, Samsung has filed a complaint with the International Trade Commission, asking it to block the sales of graphics processors made by Nvidia in the US market. The complaint also names other companies including Biostar Microtech International, Elitegroup Computer Systems, and more.

Dragon Age: Inquisition GPU & CPU Performance Review

PC gamers can expect a crisper, more detailed world in Dragon Age: Inquisition, though precisely how crisp and detailed will depend on your setup. As usual we've put some hardware to the test, including the latest AMD and Nvidia GPUs, in total 25 DirectX 11 GPU graphics card configurations from both companies covering all...

Dragon Age: Inquisition Review: Epic in scope, carefully crafted down to the smallest moment

Top-tier espionage malware 'Regin' has been spying on targets since 2008

A sophisticated piece of malware known as “Regin” has been spying on government organizations, infrastructure operators, businesses, researchers and private individuals since at least 2008. The backdoor-type Trojan is said to display a degree of technical competence rarely seen and would have required a significant investment of time and resources...

Dragon Age: Inquisition Benchmarked: Graphics & CPU Performance

PC gamers can expect a crisper, more detailed world, though precisely how crisp and detailed will depend on your setup. We test the latest AMD and Nvidia graphics cards, in total 25 DirectX 11 graphics card configurations from both companies covering all prices.

Dragon Age: Inquisition Review

Dragon Age: Inquisition is a role-playing game from BioWare, the third in the Dragon Age series. Being a fantasy game it has dragons, and elves, and magic. But it is also a fantasy in another, more special way. Inquisition ushers us into a vast world and sets that world revolving around us, patiently waiting on our every action. It has time for us. Finally, the world will be what we want it to be. Finally, we'll have the time to get everything right.

Minecraft 1.8.1
Minecraft is a fun arcade game where you explore lost worlds, kill monsters and uncover secrets. Download here for Windows, Mac and Linux. This is the The Bountiful Update.

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EZ CD Audio Converter 2.2.2.5
EZ CD Audio Converter is a complete audio suite that features CD ripping, audio converting, and disc burning.

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MX Player for Android 1.7.32
MX Player is the best way to enjoy your movies on your Android phone or tablet.

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Pidgin 2.10.11
Pidgin is a multi-protocol instant messaging client for Linux, BSD, MacOS X, and Windows.

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VLC Media Player 2.2.0 RC 2
A highly portable and popular multimedia player for multiple audio and video formats.

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doPDF 8.1.920
doPDF is a free PDF converter for both personal and commercial use.

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novaPDF Lite 8.0.920
novaPDF Lite is a software that allows you to produce PDF files from printable documents.

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Dashlane 3.0.7.74559
Instant logins. Instant checkouts. Instant gratification.

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WhatsApp Messenger for iPhone 2.11.14
WhatsApp Messenger is a smartphone messenger available for iPhone and other smartphones.

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CDex 1.73
CDex is a tool to do all sorts of things audio related. Mainly focused on ripping and converting.

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Comodo Dragon 36.1.1.19
Fast and versatile Internet Browser based on Chromium, infused with Comodo's unparalleled level of security.

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Vuze Leap Beta 1.1.0.7
Vuze Leap is a fast client for the BitTorrent network designed to be very easy to use, intuitive, and safe. With this extremely fast and efficient piece of freeware you will be able to handle all your .torrent downloads.

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CSE HTML Validator 15.00
One-click HTML, CSS, SEO, spelling, accessibility, and link checking with CSE HTML Validator for Windows saves you time and helps you eliminate website problems that cause visitors to leave your website.

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Google Web Designer Beta 1.1.3.1119
Create engaging, interactive HTML5-based designs and motion graphics that can run on any device.

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Toolwiz Time Freeze 3.0.0
Toolwiz Time Freeze is a free instant system restore solution to keep your system safe and always like new.

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Google Chrome Beta for Windows 40.0.2214.10
Google Chrome's development is high-paced and here is the browser's latest beta.

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Wipe 2014.15
Deletes cookie files, history, cache, temp files and other personal tracks. You will get more free space on the disk.

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X Codec Pack 2.6.9
X Codec Pack is one of the most complete codec packs which helps you to play all major audio and video formats.

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Ubiquitous Player 2014.11.2
Portable music player, image viewer, file manager, and more.

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Google Chrome Beta for Mac 40.0.2214.10
Google Chrome runs web pages and applications with lightning speed.

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Free TvDB 5.2.0
Free TvDB is a tv series, anime and cartoons database software. Manage your personal collection of tv series, anime and cartoons with a simple and powerful software.

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Google Chrome Beta for Linux 40.0.2214.10
Google Chrome runs web pages and applications with lightning speed.

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FBackup 5.2.643
FBackup is a free backup software for both personal and commercial use.

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Unchecky Beta 0.3.4
Unchecky automatically unchecks unrelated offers, both saving you mouse clicks and making it less likely to miss a checkbox of an unwanted offer.

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Encoding Decoding Free 3.4.2
The program is completely free, easy, fast and powerful.

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PeStudio 8.43
PeStudio is a free tool performing the static investigation of any Windows executable binary. A file being analyzed with PeStudio is never launched.

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uTorrent Beta (utorrent) 3.4.2.36413
uTorrent is an efficient and feature rich BitTorrent client for Windows sporting a very small footprint.

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Backup4all 5.2.643
Highly configurable backup software with intuitive interface.

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